European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring EMIR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited EMIR over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 681 887 924
Rank change year-on-year +206 +37 +233
Permanent jobs citing EMIR 24 10 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.010% 0.053%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.26% 0.073% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 42
10th Percentile - £69,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £80,000 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £85,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +5.86% -5.54%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £119,500 £102,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

EMIR falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,186 13,612 18,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.65% 13.74% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,701 9,245 8,785
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.39%

EMIR
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing EMIR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for EMIR in the UK

EMIR
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing EMIR.

Salary trend for EMIR in the UK

EMIR
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing EMIR over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for EMIR in the UK

EMIR
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing EMIR within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +162 24 £55,000 -35.29% 37
UK excluding London +194 18 - - 11
North of England +72 18 - -
Yorkshire - 18 - -
London +102 6 £55,000 -35.29% 36

EMIR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
1 2 (8.33%) Qlik Sense
1 2 (8.33%) QlikView
1 2 (8.33%) Tableau
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 22 (91.67%) Finance
2 18 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Front Office
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Analyst
2 18 (75.00%) Compliance Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Project Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Regulatory Change Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Regulatory Change Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) FpML
1 2 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) DTCC
1 2 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (4.17%) OTC Derivatives
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Analytics
1 18 (75.00%) Data Analytics
1 18 (75.00%) Trade Surveillance
2 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
2 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis
2 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 3 (12.50%) Project Management
2 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (8.33%) BPMN
3 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (8.33%) Data Mapping
3 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (8.33%) Emotional Intelligence
3 2 (8.33%) Epics
3 2 (8.33%) Kanban
3 2 (8.33%) UML
3 2 (8.33%) Use Case
3 2 (8.33%) User Stories
3 2 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Python
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (100.00%) MiFID
2 2 (8.33%) ISO 20022
2 2 (8.33%) SEPA
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) Dodd-Frank
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Avaloq
1 2 (8.33%) Bloomberg
1 2 (8.33%) Calypso
1 2 (8.33%) Charles River
1 2 (8.33%) Cloudera
1 2 (8.33%) Currenex
1 2 (8.33%) Murex
1 2 (8.33%) OneTrust
1 2 (8.33%) Varonis